Raid 3 Econ

gumonshoe 2987

An exercise in stabilizing economy to manage going from early to late game. The breakers aren't the most efficient, but armitage allows the kind of bursting you need until magnum opus finally can land. Opus is a last ditch sort of effort, not something to seek out. Scrubber & Desperado are far more important for your early game. And your midgame is all about the multithreaders.

Tiny bit of drip just to keep things smooth, little efficiencies everywhere which make up for the breaker suite that isn't. Standard draw suite, modded because so many targets. Gamble because sometimes a burst is welcome and you're likely to be drawing more than a card a click, making it a slight win over armitage. Clone chip is this thing you only need really for clot. It'll help occasionally with smc, but otherwise it's just redundancy incase you get a bad deal due to batty or something like it.

If you haven't played with scrubber yet, you haven't lived.

(bytheby, this isn't really derived from simplicity. I did use it as a touchstone, but the deck changed enough that you're not going to see much in common aside from shrike and threader. Most of that is that I forced scrubber and desperado into the deck)

3 comments
8 Oct 2015 FarCryFromHuman

I like this a lot. My test draws are super smooth. 3x Quality Time might be a bit too many with only Modded to get things out of hand quickly. I think I'd replace at least one with Professional Contacts or try to get Bookmark in here somewhere.

8 Oct 2015 gumonshoe

Yeah, I understand the quality time stuff. Another version of mine dropped the desperados to upgrade to corroder and used career fair with datafolding. That version was just about as smooth, though desperado's super nice. It just was better at dumping things out of hand.

8 Oct 2015 FarCryFromHuman

Desperado is pretty clutch, in the same way I feel Professional Contacts/Symmetrical Visage is. All three cards pay for themselves so fast, and vastly increase your overall efficiency while forcing you to play in a productive way. I've been including Desperado and John Masanori in every teaching deck I build for about 4 months now and it's forced me to play better as a corp.